Nova Launcher’s Founder and Sole Developer Has Left
Nova Launcher’s Founder and Sole Developer Has Left Summary Kevin Barry, the founder and sole developer of Nova Launcher, has left parent company Branch Metrics after being told to stop…
All 54 Lost Clickwheel IPod Games Have Been Preserved For Posterity
All 54 Lost Clickwheel iPod Games Have Been Preserved For Posterity Summary A community-led preservation project has assembled all 54 official clickwheel iPod games into a single, playable collection. Enthusiasts…
Plex Suffers Security Incident Exposing User Data and Urging Password Resets
Plex Suffers Security Incident Exposing User Data and Urging Password Resets Summary Plex has notified customers of a security incident in which an unauthorised third party accessed one of its…
Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files
Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files Summary Google has rolled out three notable Gemini updates. The Gemini app now accepts audio uploads — a top user request — with…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline called Auto Exploit, built by two independent Israeli researchers, uses LLM prompting (they used Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0) plus…
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments Summary The 2025 AI Darwin Awards have opened for nominations, collecting examples of spectacularly poor or ill-considered AI deployments. The initiative…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT‑5 could extend a qualitative fourth‑moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates within…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary Attaullah Baig, the former head of security for WhatsApp, has filed a lawsuit against Meta in the U.S. District Court…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US patient, Tim Andrews, remains alive and dialysis-free more than six months after receiving a genetically modified…
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving Summary In a court filing, Google said “the open web is already in rapid…